Re: [PATCH bpf-next] cpumap: bulk skb using netif_receive_skb_list

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On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 9:49 AM Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 1:57 AM Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
>
> [...]
>
> > > -                       /* Inject into network stack */
> > > -                       ret = netif_receive_skb_core(skb);
> > > -                       if (ret == NET_RX_DROP)
> > > -                               drops++;
> >
> > I guess we stop tracking "drops" with this patch?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Song
>
> Hi Song,
>
> we do not report the packets dropped by the stack but we still count the drops
> in the cpumap. If you think they are really important I guess we can change
> return value of netif_receive_skb_list returning the dropped packets or
> similar. What do you think?

I think we shouldn't silently change the behavior of the tracepoint below:

trace_xdp_cpumap_kthread(rcpu->map_id, n, drops, sched, &stats);

Returning dropped packets from netif_receive_skb_list() sounds good to me.

Thanks,
Song



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